I've had so many people over the past few weeks ask me for an update as to how Email Deliverability Summit II went that I thought I really ought to at least point to some links, which is exactly what I'm going to do, in the interest of not taking up list bandwidth. In short, it was absolutely amazing. Twenty CEOs or other executive decision-makers from ISPs, spam-filtering companies, and other email receivers (some of them on this list), and twenty from large email sending companies, in a room at a roundtable for 8 solid hours - and we got a *lot* accomplished. Those accomplishments include the promulgation and announcement of 5 new industry standards for both email senders and receivers (this is up at http://www.isipp.com/standards.php), the presentation of EDDB - which is a receivers/senders contact information database (it was actually Damian's request which reminded me to post about this - EDDB allows participants to log in and get the appropriate contact information for the sender or receiver in question - information about EDDB is at http://www.isipp.com/eddb.php), and the announcement of a new cross-industry working group - the Email Processing Industry Alliance (EPIA), which will carry on with the work started at Summits I and II (if you'd like information about being involved as a receiver, contact Mark Herrick of RoadRunner at markh@va.rr.com, or Craig Hughes of SpamAssassin Open Source at craig-hughes@isipp.com; senders should contact Ian Oxman at oxmani@rappdigital.com). Finally, ISIPP announced it's upcoming Spam and the Law conference (http://www.isipp.com/events.php). I'd also like to take this opportunity to mention that independent of ISIPP I am working on a new email deliverability product which allows senders and receivers to preauthorize and prevalidate (and even preschedule) the senders' legitimate bulk mailings. We're currently in beta, and I'd welcome any of you to participate in the beta test (which of course is free, and once we get into commercial production we expect to offer *deep* discounts to beta testers). Anyone who would like more information should contact me directly. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. President & CEO Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy